Six-spot burnet moth, Zygaena filipendulae on common mallow.
The rain and gales held off for the day and we took a short walk along the Crouch on the sea wall from Burnham-on-Crouch quayside.
The sight of ragwort strung with cinnabar caterpillars took us back to when plot 57b was an allotment plot. We'd assiduously weed around the ragwort plants whether they'd germinated in the very middle of a vegetable bed in anticipation of the Minnie-the-Minx-striped caterpillars of the Cinnabar moth.
Queen Anne’s Lace or Wild Carrot, Daucus carota(?)
The common Red Soldier Beetle, Rhagonycha fulva was out in force.
Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Saltmarsh horsefly, Atylotus latistriatus
We chose Burnham-on-Crouch to try out our new tent on our inaugural UK camping trip. We can highly recommend Silver Road Caravan Park the manager is helpful, the campers friendly and the ablution facilities spotlessly clean. The site is just off the high street and minutes walk from the quayside lined with weatherboard cottages and weathered brick taverns. The nearby tiny, quaint independent Rio cinema is well worth a visit too.
We also recommend Brian Dawson's seal viewing trips. The weather didn't hold for taking photographs but the trip went ahead and we were able to observe several groups of harbour seals and their pups, curlew and avocet.
We look forward to returning and taking the ferry to explore the Wallasea Wetlands.
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